8 BRITTON : STUDIES OF WEsT INDIAN PLANTS 
petioles 4-6 mm. long; fruiting peduncles stout, 3 cm. long; in- 
florescence about 3-flowered; fruiting pedicels about 1 cm. long; 
bracts triangular-ovate, acute, rigid, 5 mm. long; fruit oblong, 
obtuse, 2.5 cm. long, 1.5 cm. thick, the persistent sepals broadly 
triangular-ovate, scarious-margined; stigmas 5. 
Peckham woods, Upper Clarendon, Jamaica, in fruit July ., 
1911, Harris to992. Related to C. venosa Jacq. 
Maytenus clarendonensis sp. nov. 
A tree, up to 18 meters high. Leaves broadly elliptic, coria- 
ceous, obtuse at both ends, 8—10 cm. long, 5-7 cm. wide, strongly 
revolute-margined, shining above, dull, and the veins rather 
prominent beneath, the stout petioles 1 cm. long or less; fruiting 
pedicels about 6 mm. long; capsules oblong, pointed at both ends, 
15-18 mm. long, 8 mm. thick, roughened with depressed tubercles. 
Peckham woods, Upper Clarendon, Jamaica, in fruit July 5, 
1911, Harris 10947. Related to M. jamaicensis Krug & Urban. 
Portlandia Harrisii sp. nov. 
A small tree up to 6 meters high. Leaves orbicular, coriaceous, 
sessile, 8-10 cm. long and broad, rounded at the apex, cordate at 
the base, shining and reticulate-veined on both surfaces; stipules 
broad, obtuse; flowers 2-5 together in the upper axils, about 5 
cm. long; corolla campanulate, the tube apparently about as long 
as the limb; fruiting pedicels stout, 6-8 mm. long; immature 
capsules obovoid, obtusely 5-angled, 2 cm. long, 1.5 cm. thick, 
crowned by the short calyx teeth. . 
On limestone rocks, Peckham woods, Upper Clarendon, July 6, 
1911, Harris 10975. Only old withered fallen corollas were 
obtained. 
Rondeletia saxicola Sp. nov. 
A shrub about 4 meters high, the twigs pilose-pubescent. 
Leaves thin, oblanceolate to oblong, acute at the apex, narrowed 
loosely appressed-pubescent 
se-pubescent at least on the 
10 cm. long, 3 cm. wide or less, 
m. long; flowers in short-stalked 
- In diameter, the rather stout, densely 
pubescent peduncles 5-8 mm. long; bracts linear, acute, 5-8 mm. 
ong; calyx 4 mm. long, pubescent, lobed to below the middle, 
the lobes narrowly lanceolate, acute; fruit pubescent, about 5 
mm. thick. 
